yesterday someone was hitting the server with a download request for 1 theme, personally I wouldn't care, but it's unfair to the other people who spends time developing themes ('cause this theme would show up "higher" in the list)

can you download any other themes on the site?

btw, since I applied the restriction, about 130+ themes were downloaded so I'm petty sure the download itself still works.

--iM

It’s done, the great act of creation.
The maker rests. The wheel’s in motion.
-- Imre Madách

I don't download any theme from your site, but nevertheless I can't download at all!

which is weird ... but if they use a proxy within a building and it so happens that somebody downloads the same theme the same day, I can see how it is a problem. but I needed something to prevent "cheating"

--iM

It’s done, the great act of creation.
The maker rests. The wheel’s in motion.
-- Imre Madách

@iM, I think you're right. I mis-read his post. NAT behind a firewall with a public IP would hit the restriction. You could relax the restrictions to 3 per day from the same IP (just as an example). It would limit the ability to skew the download stats, but still allow for multiple people at the same company to access the site. You seem to be growing in popularity, so the odds are good that this will happen again.

It takes 2 points to draw a straight line, but at least 3 to draw a conclusion.

@iM, I think you're right. I mis-read his post. NAT behind a firewall with a public IP would hit the restriction. You could relax the restrictions to 3 per day from the same IP (just as an example). It would limit the ability to skew the download stats, but still allow for multiple people at the same company to access the site. You seem to be growing in popularity, so the odds are good that this will happen again.

yes, that might be a better idea. I'll do that later this week or early next week ...

thanks,
--iM

It’s done, the great act of creation.
The maker rests. The wheel’s in motion.
-- Imre Madách

Seriously though, this is the 3rd or 4th time that you have posted 4+ posts in a row. You can't make people like your website.

haha, sorry man. I usually only post when there is a new theme uploaded or we hit a bigger mark (downloaded OR visited), but people reported some issues after we moved the site to a new server and I wanted to make sure everyone know that the site is up and functioning again

this is my only channel of communication with the site visitors, since everything on it is FREE and you don't need to register!

thanks for your post btw, it also moved the topic to the top again

--iM

ps: if any of the forum moderators read this, please let me know if it's unethical to post updates here. Or better yet, since this is one of the most visited Yii related site, maybe you guys should pin it

It’s done, the great act of creation.
The maker rests. The wheel’s in motion.
-- Imre Madách